On Designing a Website

So we’ve been toying around with the idea of building a website for a few months now. We have too many cool things to share, and if we post them on one of our social media accounts, we’re running the risk of people not seeing them, not being able to see them, or losing the post entirely if the site goes the way of the dinosaurs. The way to combat that: make your own website. Brian set everything up and started building some pages from scratch. Then he went to a conference and after talking to some other professionals, was told “building a website is just like using Canva!” and thought ‘that sounds like a project for the wife’. After digging into the back of my mind for information from gen-ed courses from a decade ago, leaning on art and design knowledge from fifteen years worth of learning, and thinking ‘well that just doesn’t look right…’ I can confidently say that I think I’m learning what to do. I think. So apologies if this is a little too work-in-progress for your liking, but that’s just what it is! I hope you continue to check the site out and get some enjoyment out of it along the way.

- G

On Making a Website

Which is surprisingly annoying in the modern day; or maybe that’s because the last time I did this was in the early aughts. Back then, life was simple. Buy a domain and a hosting service, set up an FTP, write all the code yourself, constantly break things, and eventually, website! This new-fangled nonsense of click and drag and know no coding has somehow made it much more difficult for me. Just the simple act of figuring out how to go about buying the domain and website was surprisingly tedious, despite the fact that everyone told me it was so easy these days. My brain was apparently not made for the alleged simplicity of modern interneting.

-B